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Issue #37 · Wednesday, August 12, 2026 | | Volatility (VIX) Cautious · 15.4 ▲ from 15.3 yesterday | | Worth noting SpaceX (SPCX) moved +4.23% on the day. | | Markets slip modestly as investors weigh AI infrastructure costs against inflation concerns and earnings reports. |
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● The Numbers | S&P 500 | 7,728.20 -0.32%
-0.11% this week | | Nasdaq Composite | 26,445.45 -0.60%
-0.52% this week | | Dow Jones | 53,791.85 -0.34%
-0.54% this week | | Russell 2000 | 3,027.12 +0.32%
-0.32% this week |
Before the bell: see how Asia, Europe & US futures traded overnight → |
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● The Movers Leaders | SPCX SpaceX | +4.23% | | TSLA Tesla | +0.58% | | META Meta | +0.48% |
| Laggards | GOOGL Alphabet | -3.84% | | AMZN Amazon | -2.09% | | AAPL Apple | -1.09% |
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The day's best and worst of the tracked indices and mega-caps · day-over-day change. |
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● The Read S&P 500 — description, not prediction Trading above both its 50-day (7,500.99) and 200-day (7,060.26) averages — the longer-term trend reads as up. 30-day range 7,316.15–7,757.64; currently in the upper third of that range. RSI(14) 65 — momentum firm. See where every market sits on the daily page → |
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Markets 101 What is the S&P 500? An index tracking 500 of the largest US companies, weighted by market value. It's the most-watched gauge of "the US stock market" because those 500 firms are most of its total value. |
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